The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-24
SOMETHING ABOUT BURLEsoUE.
1t Appears to be Coming Into Favor
Again.

NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-Burlesque is abroad
again. Mr.. Edward f. Rice has returned
to town with his troupe of amply revealed
women, and they are causing the usual
amount of perturbation, tribulat on and ex-
element among the contingent of unnatu-
rally young old men and preternaturally
old young men to form the main pillar and
support of such shows There is a substan-
tial reason for the success of burlesque
everywhere There is no doubt that women
are fond of looking at other members of
their sex whose charms are well displayed
and mans prediction in this respect dates
back to the protoplasmic era of fathomless
ooze. | don't know exactly what this means
except with an article which | read in an
English magazine the other day it is fresh
in my mind. The article explained with
wealth of rhetoric that man had originally
sprung from monkey, that the monkey
had come by a system of evolution from the
oyster, which i'll turn had originated in pro-
tOplasm, which in turn had been evolved
from ooze 1t was the most mastery and
complete explanation of the origin of man
that have ever encountered outside of Oar
win, but it left the reader breathleSs baffied
and baked at the tale end of the article by
failing to explain what the ooze Sprang
from. The acute and discerning reader
probably imagined at this point that am
going to insinuate that some of Mr. Rice's
chorus girls belong to the era of protoplas-
mic ooze. Not so. 1t is a DEPRESSION. Rice's
chorus girls are as usual the prettiest ones
on the stage. They cannot sing, but they
are eminentlY pleasing TO the eye
The "COrSair'' is very much like Evan
gellne.n 1t has the inevitable Irishman and
the old-time fat woman, and the usual num-
Der of agile and lively comedians. The
book is rot. Nobody expects Shakesperian
i'm q 10 a htTnt
is catching, and is calculated to dispel gloom
and sorrow. The main charm of the Cor
Sair' lies in the sumptuOus and magnificent
fashion of its production. Everything
about it has been directed to the sole object
| of achieving triumph of color and harmo-
! ny in the stage pictures. 1t is a gorgeous
| spectacle, and as such it will undoubtedly
| be successful.
1t is a long step from Rice burlesque to
| a picture of New England home life like
"The Old Homestead" While Rice and
! Dizzy are spending fortunes on costumes and
dazzling scenic effects, Abbey is developing
the biggest stock company in the country,
and other men are projecting theatrical
; speculationS which would astound a Wall
street dreamer; an old time actor gives
quiet picture OF home life on the stage, and
makes more money than all the others put
| together. 1t was so with Hazel kirken and
SO with The Old Homestead The income
of Denman Thompson is colossal and is all
due to the fact that he gives pictures of
| everyday and familiar incidents.
! He is reaiist and not son
sationalist. Thompson combines the two
extraordinary characters III one. He is the
widest sort of a sportsman and sporting
man on a race track and the mildest old
farmer imaginable when tilling his home
| acre. He is plunger from Plungerville
( when he backs his horses, and he will drop
/ more money in two days at Jerome, Sleeps
! head or Monmouth than he can make up
acdug in weeks. II is poor week by
/ the way that Denman Thompson does not
| take in $4,000 at the door. Pictures of
/ home life are as popular as the home novels
! OF +. p. Roe. who mas long stood at the
! head OF American novelists, judged by the
/ size of his income. There is a point worth
noting here by the manufacturers of things
! theatrical BLAKELY HALL